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Fikile Mbalula 'basically paid for' Dubai trip – Spokesperson

This is after EWN reports that Sedgars Sport paid for at least half of minister's R680 000 trip

Mbalula 'basically paid for' Dubai trip - spokesperson

9 October 2017

Johannesburg - Claims that Police Minister Fikile Mbalula's family holiday to Dubai last year were partly paid for by a sporting goods company are not true, his spokesperson Vuyo Mhaga says.

"It was a private trip. He basically paid for it," Mhaga said after EWN reported that a company that supplies sports uniforms paid for part of the trip taken between December 2016 and January 2017 when Mbalula was minister of sport.

According to EWN, Sedgars Sport paid for at least half of the R680 000 trip. The report claimed that two payments were made from a bank account linked to Reimon Uniforms.

The first payment was R200 000 and another payment of R100 000 was made to a Johannesburg-based travel agency Munlin Travel.